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No part of this documentation may be reproduced, transmitted, or translated in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, manual, optical, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Digiliant, LLC. 1 OVERVIEW OF WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2003 R2 .......................................................................................... 1 NETWORKING ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Network Data Transmission Protocols ................................................................................................................................ 1 NETWORK SECURITY ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1 FILE SERVING ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 File Sharing Protocols ............................................................................................................................................................ 2 Supported Utilities and Applications .................................................................................................................................... 2 STORAGE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Managing Storage Devices ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Ensuring Availability of Stored Data ..................................................................................................................................... 4 DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Workgroup ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Domain ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2003 EDITIONS ............................................................................................................................. 5 2 CONFIGURATION ................................................................................................................................................................ 7 START UP ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 USER INTERFACES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Remote Desktop ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER MANAGEMENT CONSOLE .............................................................................................................. 8 SERVER NAME AND DOMAIN ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT ........................................................................................................................................................... 9 NETWORK ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Setting the IP Address ........................................................................................................................................................... 9 DNS Resolution ..................................................................................................................................................................... 10 WINS Resolution ................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Network Interface Controllers Properties .......................................................................................................................... 12 Network Cards Teaming ...................................................................................................................................................... 12 MAINTENANCE ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Setting the system date and time ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Viewing and maintaining event logs ................................................................................................................................... 14 3 USER AND GROUP MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................. 15 DOMAIN COMPARED TO WORKGROUP ENVIRONMENTS .............................................................................................................. 15 USER AND GROUP NAME PLANNING ............................................................................................................................................. 15 Managing user names.......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Managing group names ................................................................................................................................................. 15 Managing local users ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Managing local groups ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 4 DISKS AND VOLUMES ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 RAID ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 19 DISKS AND VOLUMES ................................................................................................................................................................... 19 CHANGING DISK TYPES ............................................................................................................................................................... 21 Converting a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk ...................................................................................................................... 21 Changing a Dynamic Disk Back to a Basic Disk .............................................................................................................. 21 Reactivating Dynamic Disks ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Rescanning Disks ................................................................................................................................................................. 21 USING BASIC DISKS AND PARTITION ........................................................................................................................................... 22 Creating Partitions ................................................................................................................................................................ 22 MANAGING EXISTING PARTITIONS AND DRIVES .......................................................................................................................... 23 Assigning Drive Letters and Paths ....................................................................................................................................